As I travel around the United States and Canada as a safety consultant and motivational speaker for schools, colleges, universities, and private industry, I am amazed at the information found on cooking located in bookstores and restaurants. Why write a book about popcorn? Because I love popcorn, but more importantly, like a student in a classroom, I had a need to learn more about one of my favorite snacks. This book does more than just explain how to pop corn. This book can be used by teachers as a history lesson and be used in home economics, science classes, math classes, agricultural classrooms, etc. Hopefully, this book will be used as another fun tool to educate children. Everyone loves popcorn It is my hope that you enjoy this book.

AN AMBITIOUS WOMAN SEEKS A CHANGE IN HER LIFE... Leaving the Scottish Highlands for a career as a English Literature professor became more elusive for a Scottish farm girl than she originally thought. Unknown to her...women were not accepted to any English University because of the gender discrimination practiced in 1913. However, the Dean of Oxford University groomed her for enrollment, and she became the first woman to attend classes at the most exclusive University in all of England. She met a tall handsome stranger who rescued her, and then guided her through a new life as a student. During the difficult days, her Prince Charming helped her overcome the many deterrents her professors and other students put in her way. And then...World War I began. Her true love joined the Army, and suddenly Emily's life spun out of control. She was forced to choose between finishing her lifetime dream and caring for the most important person in her life. Her newfound passion to save the person she loved directed her life in a totally different direction. In an effort to save him from dying Emily chose a future life far away from her beloved England.

THE GENERAL IS MISSING THE GENERAL IS MISSING****** AN ACTION-PACKED DRAMA, CRAMMED WITH CONSPIRACY, DANGER, HUMOR, AND SUSPENSE. THIS ENERGY-FILLED PLOT WILL EXCITE YOUR PASSIONS AND FILL YOUR HEAD WITH EXPECTATION, AS GRIFFIN IS DRAWN INTO A TANGLED WEB OF ARMY INTRIGUE. Griffin, a retired FBI Special Agent, on a flight to Chicago to help his critically injured Marine friend, is drawn into an ongoing mystery by Kate, an attractive flight attendant, who views him as her father's look-alike. An Army courier carrying a message to a Pentagon General is poisoned. Before dying, falls into Kate's arms. In his last gasping breath he begs Kate to deliver an unmarked envelope to a General Ridgeway, muttering, "It's a matter of national security." This suspense-filled plot continues to unfold requiring Griffin to choose between helping his injured Marine friend or becoming involved with the lovely flight attendant. The mystery requires Griffin to enlist the assistance of a profiler who directs the hunt for the missing General.

THEO LOVES ME A LOVE STORY WORTH REMEMBERING... One day, without reason, Theo finds his energies filled with a desire to bring a new woman into his life, a woman who could love him deeply, and a woman who would brighten his days by adding richness, care, and companionship to his needy life. Time passed. These disturbing feelings lingered. And then ... a chance meeting ... a sensuous woman stopped next to him ... a flirtatious smile, an eye contact lasting longer than seconds ... disarmed him. A love affair followed ... Theo and Jenny found something new and adventurous in each other. Could it be just a fresh infatuation? Or could Jenny be the woman to fill Theo's dreams of finding a life-long partner? Unsure about the uncertainties of love, Theo struggles to keep their love vibrant and alive in spite of the atypical happenings.

Covid-19's Impact on Higher Education: How Business Continuity Planning Can Reverse It asks and answers probing questions affecting higher education in the post-COVID-19 educational landscape. The book examines whether private universities, particularly liberal arts colleges, have viable business models and discusses the risk posed by a faulty business model. It fits a liberal arts foundation into a sustainable value chain for a university and shows how business continuity planning (BCP) can help a university to achieve long-term sustainable operation. It also recommends goals, composition, and successful practices for a business continuity planning task force. Ultimately, this book creates a pathway to build viable undergraduate degrees on a liberal arts foundation. It concludes with authority, responsibility, and accountability in business continuity planning.

Covid-19's Impact on Higher Education: How Business Continuity Planning Can Reverse It asks and answers probing questions affecting higher education in the post-COVID-19 educational landscape. The book examines whether private universities, particularly liberal arts colleges, have viable business models and discusses the risk posed by a faulty business model. It fits a liberal arts foundation into a sustainable value chain for a university and shows how business continuity planning (BCP) can help a university to achieve long-term sustainable operation. It also recommends goals, composition, and successful practices for a business continuity planning task force. Ultimately, this book creates a pathway to build viable undergraduate degrees on a liberal arts foundation. It concludes with authority, responsibility, and accountability in business continuity planning.

"When you are in a hole, stop digging." The wisdom of Will Rogers, American humorist, seems to be forgotten with respect to scholarly research in the arts, social sciences, business, and education. Why do doctoral candidates and professors produce scholarship that minimally advances knowledge and has no impact on producing educated and productive citizens? Rarely seen outside a closed club of scholars and journals, scholarly research serves only to demonstrate mastery of an art form that is not relevant in the mainstream of higher education. This book proposes reforms starting with the doctoral dissertation. The issue is that the dissertation's over emphasis on obscure research undermines the subsequent scholarship expected of professors in our colleges and universities. This book discusses reforms in doctoral programs to improve the value of and process to complete a doctoral dissertation.

"When you are in a hole, stop digging." The wisdom of Will Rogers, American humorist, seems to be forgotten with respect to scholarly research in the arts, social sciences, business, and education. Why do doctoral candidates and professors produce scholarship that minimally advances knowledge and has no impact on producing educated and productive citizens? Rarely seen outside a closed club of scholars and journals, scholarly research serves only to demonstrate mastery of an art form that is not relevant in the mainstream of higher education. This book proposes reforms starting with the doctoral dissertation. The issue is that the dissertation's over emphasis on obscure research undermines the subsequent scholarship expected of professors in our colleges and universities. This book discusses reforms in doctoral programs to improve the value of and process to complete a doctoral dissertation.

This book argues for changes in the common cultural heritage of an educated person. It addresses the need to differentiate teaching and scholarship. It proposes expansive views of an undergraduate education. It explains why colleges and universities must replace parochialism, reform the public perception of higher education, revise the professoriate, restructure the liberal arts curriculum, and extend the lessons of the liberal arts beyond the classroom.

This book argues for changes in the common cultural heritage of an educated person. It addresses the need to differentiate teaching and scholarship. It proposes expansive views of an undergraduate education. It explains why colleges and universities must replace parochialism, reform the public perception of higher education, revise the professoriate, restructure the liberal arts curriculum, and extend the lessons of the liberal arts beyond the classroom.

The changing role and expectations of higher education have reached a crisis point. The heart of the problem is an isolation of the professoriate. An emphasis on obscure research and lack of accountability is undermining the academy. Creating a dissertation is usually an exhausting and frustrating task. New professors are not prepared for what is about to happen to them. Students are being shortchanged by professors who fail to facilitate learning. The effort to find a long-term academic appointment can be just as bad. This book tells the story of a period of suffering for new professors quite comparable to the description of purgatory in Dante's Divine Comedy. This book documents the story.

The changing role and expectations of higher education have reached a crisis point. The heart of the problem is an isolation of the professoriate. An emphasis on obscure research and lack of accountability is undermining the academy. Creating a dissertation is usually an exhausting and frustrating task. New professors are not prepared for what is about to happen to them. Students are being shortchanged by professors who fail to facilitate learning. The effort to find a long-term academic appointment can be just as bad. This book tells the story of a period of suffering for new professors quite comparable to the description of purgatory in Dante's Divine Comedy. This book documents the story.

Unfortunate obsessions dominate the culture of colleges and universities and shortchange students and everyone else. Professors have become an obstacle to learning. They are not interested in or rewarded for teaching. They scramble to survive in a surreal world of nonsense scholarship and obscure publication. They conduct meaningless research and treat teaching with disdain. Learning takes place because students make it happen in spite of the foolishness that surrounds them. Professors don't explain, listen, or give feedback. Many don't speak understandable English. This book throws open the door of the faculty lounge and tells the dramatic and even embarrassing story. It recommends major changes in the professoriate to restore confidence in higher education.

Unfortunate obsessions dominate the culture of colleges and universities and shortchange students and everyone else. Professors have become an obstacle to learning. They are not interested in or rewarded for teaching. They scramble to survive in a surreal world of nonsense scholarship and obscure publication. They conduct meaningless research and treat teaching with disdain. Learning takes place because students make it happen in spite of the foolishness that surrounds them. Professors don't explain, listen, or give feedback. Many don't speak understandable English. This book throws open the door of the faculty lounge and tells the dramatic and even embarrassing story. It recommends major changes in the professoriate to restore confidence in higher education.